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British Nuclear Fuels British Nuclear Fuels is planning to relocate up to 350 staff from Sellafield to a multi-million pound purpose-built office block in Whitehaven, and plans have been submitted to Copeland Borough Council. British Nuclear Fuels is to shed 270 of the 300 jobs at its Capenhurst plant in Wirral over the next four years, due to the completion of decommissioning work. British Nuclear Fuels is in negotiations with Siemens about the creation of a joint venture for their nuclear fuels and engineering operations in order to offer a one-stop shop for the nuclear power industry. www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /brs11069.htm   (1188 words)

BNFL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British Nuclear Fuels plc or BNFL manufactures and transports nuclear fuel (notably MOX), runs reactors, generates and sells electricity, reprocesses and manages spent fuel (mainly at Sellafield), and decommissions nuclear plants and other similar facilities. British Nuclear Fuels Limited was set up in February 1971 from the demerger of the production division of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) was established on 1 April 2005. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Nuclear_Fuels   (787 words)

Short v Ireland, AG, British Nuclear Fuels and Others British Nuclear Fuels entered a qualified appearance to the said Summons for the purpose only of contesting the validity of the order which had been made giving leave to serve out of the jurisdiction and also the validity of the service of the proceedings. British Nuclear Fuels plc was established to fulfil the purposes of the United Kingdom's Atomic Energy Act 1971 and, inter alia, to facilitate the commercial development of nuclear fuel. This could have serious consequences in the event of British Nuclear Fuels seeking to rely on a British administrative authorisation and the Plaintiffs' attempting to argue that the authorisation was invalid for non-compliance with European directives. www.ucc.ie /law/irlii/cases/174-95_e.htm   (2489 words)

Anti-Atom-Lexikon - British Nuclear Fuels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) British Nuclear Fuels plc's (BNFL's) mixed oxide (MOX) fuel plant at Sellafield would be cheaper to operate than to mothball, according to an independent report published by Arthur D Little. British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) is seeking to renegotiate its contracts with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). British Energy (BE) and British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) have signed an agreement to assess the feasibility of the Westinghouse AP1000 advanced pressurised water reactor (APWR) design as a potential nuclear power plant option to replace BE's existing UK nuclear power plants when they reach the end of their planned operating lives. www.anti-atom.de /bnfl.htm   (2663 words)

Crisis deepens over British nuclear reprocessing plant This could take years to organise and the plutonium-based fuel would have to be heavily guarded at all stages on a route that passes through the coastal waters of countries hostile to nuclear power. Despite considerable popular opposition to the nuclear industry, the Kansai Electric Power Co., which imported the MOX for its Takahama reactor, is investigating other potential sources of the fuel. The nuclear industry, which had previously provided the raw material for nuclear bombs, was highly integrated into the state structures of the countries in which it operated. www.wsws.org /articles/2000/apr2000/nuc-a03.shtml   (1410 words)

British Nuclear Fuels accused of deliberately falsifying safety checks The fuel was due to be sold to British Energy, the privatised operation that runs most of the remainder of the UK's nuclear power stations. It was also anxious to divert attention from the dangerous safety standards in its own nuclear industry, brought to light by the accident at Tokaimura, where two untrained nuclear workers died after triggering a nuclear reaction. Minatom are targeting nuclear power generators who are looking for cheaper reprocessing or storage, such as new operators in South East Asia, old plants in Eastern Europe and those presently sending their waste to Sellafield or the La Hague facility in France. www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/nuc-m21.shtml   (1502 words)

British Nuclear Fuels plc :: BNFL Gains Approval to Sell British Nuclear Group Lawrie Haynes, British Nuclear Group's Chief Executive, said: "A strong British Nuclear Group means strong competition and that can only be good news for the NDA and the UK taxpayer. British Nuclear Group is also responsible for the management of a further 12,000 people through the site management and operations contracts it has from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). For example British Nuclear Group is working in partnership with Serco and Lockheed Martin at AWE Aldermaston; Fluor at Sellafield; Amec at Dounreay; and numerous other projects across the UK. sev.prnewswire.com /oil-energy/20060330/3128982en-1.html   (702 words)

British Nuclear Fuels Limited - Nuclear Spin British Nuclear Fuels plc is an international company, owned by the UK government. BNFL's ultimate plan is said to include selling off the British Nuclear Group, leaving it with a stake in the uranium-enrichment firm Urenco and research firm Nexia Solutions. British Nuclear Group won Gold at the 2005 North West Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Pride awards in Manchester for its "Taking the Time to Listen and Act" PR campaign. www.nuclearspin.org /index.php/BNFL   (1274 words)

Dirty Dozen - British Nuclear Fuels Limited Reprocessing Fuel: Greenpeace, in the interest of the environment, public health and safety and nuclear non-proliferation has established British Nuclear Fuels where the leaked documents and a background briefing on BNFL's reprocessing crisis can be found. PNTL transports nuclear materials by sea between Japan and Europe. Nearly 50% percent of the nuclear power plants in operation worldwide, and nearly 60% in the United States, are based on Westinghouse technology. www.reachingcriticalwill.org /corporate/dd/bnfl.html   (1302 words)

WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2001-1318   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) It states that it produces and markets nuclear fuel in the United Kingdom and has 51 sites in 16 other countries; that it holds a 12 per cent share of the world's nuclear market; and that its capabilities cover the range of the nuclear fuel cycle from procurement to waste management and decommissioning. Because of its generic character ‘British nuclear fuels’ cannot be regarded as a name identifying the Complainant as a business entity either in its own right or through an association in the public mind with "BNFL". It may perhaps be that it would face difficulties in registering "British Nuclear Fuels" as a trade mark in the UK and elsewhere because it would have to make out sufficient distinctiveness to show that the relevant public no longer treated the phrase as descriptive. www.wipo.int /amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-1318.html   (3011 words)

Dialogue: Why we should extend nuclear exclusion zone - Green Party However, British Nuclear Fuels has given no such assurances and has said this will be at the discretion of the ship's captain. The 1987 New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament and Arms Control Act was a landmark piece of legislation that sent shockwaves around the world's nuclear powers and made New Zealand the world leader on the issue of nuclear disarmament. There is no mention of shipments of nuclear waste or reprocessed fuel because in 1987 the reprocessing industry had not gone global. www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/other4853.html   (1047 words)

British Nuclear Fuels Jobs: Vault Jobs & Employment Profiles British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) is an international nuclear power company owned by the British government. Its operations span the nuclear energy spectrum, from reactor design to fuel manufacturing to power station decommissioning and clean-up. British Nuclear Fuels employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on jobs and employment at specific employers. www.vault.com /jobs-company/British-Nuclear-Fuels.html   (248 words)

Justification of the Operation of the British Nuclear Fuels Sellafield Mixed Oxide Fuel Plant - regjeringen.no Reference is made to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions’ (DETR) consultation paper regarding the issue of whether the operation of British Nuclear Fuels Sellafield Mixed Oxide Fuel Plant (SMP) is justified. Furthermore, plans to ship MOX fuel and highly radioactive nuclear waste from reprosessing facilities in Sellafield and La Hague to Japan via Arctic and Norwegian waters have been revealed. The manufacture by British Nuclear Fuels of MOX fuel is closely linked to the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel at the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP). www.odin.dep.no /odinarkiv/english/stoltenberg_I/md/022021-080003/dok-bn.html   (678 words)

British Nuclear Fuels PLC - Capenhurst works It is for distribution to members of the Capenhurst District Liaison Committee and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at Capenhurst. Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate normally attend DLC meetings and will be happy to respond to questions raised there or subsequently by members of the DLC. A co-ordinated inspection of BNFL's arrangements under licence conditions 14 and 15 (safety cases and periodic review of safety cases) was undertaken by a team of three NII inspectors over a two day period in February. www.hse.gov.uk /nuclear/llc/2003/capen1.htm   (607 words)

RTE News - British Nuclear Fuels to close eight nuclear power stations British Nuclear Fuels has announced that all eight of its Magnox Nuclear Power Stations across Britain will close between now and 2021. The announcement is designed to satisfy the terms of the 1998 OSPAR agreement which aims to reduce radioactive discharges to the marine environment to as close as possible to zero by 2020. Under the plan, Calder Hall nuclear reactor at Sellafield will close between 2006 and 2008, by then it will be 50 years old. www.rte.ie /news/2000/0523/sellafield.html   (288 words)

BBC News | UK | Mox: The voyage home While seeing BNFL's climb-down over the fuel rods as a vindication of their stance on nuclear reprocessing, environmental groups are still troubled by their impending homeward voyage. Greenpeace, who are calling for the Mox to be treated as nuclear waste in Japan, say more than 50 nations protested when the ships made the 18,000-mile outward journey last year. Critics of Mox reprocessing, where uranium and plutonium are released from spent nuclear fuel then recombined to create new fuel rods, say it raises nuclear proliferation issues. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/828638.stm   (768 words)

British Nuclear taking offers - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review British Nuclear Fuels Plc., parent company of Westinghouse Electric for the past six years, ended months of speculation Friday by announcing in London it plans to start the "structured sale process" of its U.S. subsidiary. The British company's decision, made at its board meeting Thursday, was circulated to Westinghouse employees in the United States, said Vaughn Gilbert, Westinghouse spokesman at the company's Monroeville headquarters. British Nuclear Fuels will be able to concentrate on its core businesses, and those businesses would be managed to "deliver value and control risks to the United Kingdom taxpayer," said Gordon Campbell, chairman of British Nuclear Fuels. www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_349527.html   (390 words)

British Nuclear Fuels Limited [BNFL] - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) BNFL provides fuel manufacture and uranium procurement, as well as recycling used fuel, transporting radioactive materials, engineering, waste management and decommissioning. BNFL provides comprehensive nuclear fuel recycling services to UK and overseas electric power utilities. The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) plant commenced operations in 1994 The enrichment business is undertaken by Urenco Limited, a company with its headquarters in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, which is jointly owned by BNFL with Dutch and German partners. www.fas.org /nuke/guide/uk/corp/bnfl.htm   (250 words)

British Nuclear Fuels plc :: BNFL Announces Westinghouse Sale WARRINGTON, England, January 24 /PRNewswire/ -- British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) today announced that it has selected Toshiba Corporation, the highest bidder, as the preferred bidder for the sale of Westinghouse Electric Company. We are pleased that by selecting Toshiba we have achieved our dual objectives of doing the best for our employees and the British taxpayers," said Mike Parker, BNFL CEO. Westinghouse is built on generations of American ingenuity and we will continue to grow and serve the U.S. and the world as nuclear energy becomes ever more important," said Steve Tritch, President and CEO of Westinghouse Electric Company. sev.prnewswire.com /oil-energy/20060124/3082137en-1.html   (243 words)

CSC: Outsourcing Fuels British Nuclear's Future When British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) faced new decommissioning and privatization challenges, it knew sweeping changes to the business were in order if it were to successfully compete in the open market. Following a government review, the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) was established in 2005 to oversee the closing and clean-up of the obsolete parts of the UK’s civil nuclear program. BNFL transferred all its nuclear assets to the NDA and was charged to maintain them until open bidding on their management is concluded. www.csc.com /industries/chemicalenergynaturalresources/casestudies/3852.shtml   (717 words)

Bnfl Learns To Count - British Nuclear Fuels - Brief Article Ecologist, The - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) British Nuclear Fuels' new-look accounts will help the government go ahead with its plans to privatise the company by 2002. BNFL's nest egg includes a [pounds]2.6 billion cash payment to cover future decommissioning costs that it was given when it bought Magnox nuclear power stations in 1998, as well as a [pounds]3.7 billion IOU from the Government. Although BNFL may yet pull off its privatisation, as it stands the group 'would not be a good financial investment,' says Greenpeace's nuclear campaigner Bridget Woodman. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2465/is_4_30/ai_63699753   (355 words)

Wasted Again - talks concerning nuclear contracts between British Nuclear Fuels and Electricity de France - Brief ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) is engaged in talks with Electricite de France (EdF) aiming at winning contracts from Cogema, its French competitor. According to BNFL, EdF is considering opening up all its nuclear contracts to competition; including reprocessing of spent fuel, reactor maintenance and atomic fuel supply. According to Greenpeace, French nuclear waste was likely to stay in Britain for years if reprocessing contracts were signed. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2465/is_3_31/ai_73040713   (190 words)

RTE News - Chief Executive of British Nuclear Fuels to resign The chief executive of British Nuclear Fuels is to resign tomorrow, following recent revelations about safety breaches at Sellafield. Last week's damning report by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate said that safety data at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria had been falsified. It also accused the company of "systematic management failures" in the wake of the discovery that data relating to checks on the safety of a shipment of uranium and plutonium mixed oxide fuel to Japan had been falsified. www.rte.ie /news/2000/0228/sellafield.html   (301 words)

Talon Composites Extends Relationship with British Nuclear Fuels PLC This represents the beginning of Phase III of the highly specialized nuclear fuel transportation project for BNFL, whose success has been driven in part by the Talbor® material. These MMCs consist of aluminum and boron carbide and are supplied primarily to the nuclear waste and nuclear transportation industries for neutron absorption applications. Talon's proprietary processes enable the boron carbide particulates to be dispersed evenly throughout the composite, making it especially suitable to the nuclear industry. www.caprep.com /b0105010.htm   (400 words)

The Nuclear Businesses Project Services is a leading international nuclear services company with over 40 years of experience in successfully delivering highly differentiated technical and engineering solutions. Working across the whole nuclear life-cycle, Project Services is dedicated to providing fit for purpose waste and decommissioning solutions plus many other allied products and services. Sellafield Ltd has emerged from the reorganisation of the country's nuclear assets and liabilities as the company responsible for the safe delivery of multi-million pound contracts at Sellafield and Capenhurst on behalf of site owners, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). www.britishnucleargroup.com /content.php?opID=286&Submit=>&pageID=186   (173 words)

British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) - SourceWatch As of 1st April 2005 all the UK assets have been transferred to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority." [1] In February 2006 O'Dwyer's reported that Weber Shandwick is promoting British Nuclear Fuels' move to sell Westinghouse Electric to Japan's Toshiba for $5.4 billion. U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez had lobbied British officials in favor of General Electric's bid for Westinghouse. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=British_Nuclear_Fuels_plc_(BNFL)   (214 words)

British Nuclear Fuels plc information and related industry information from Hoover's British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) provides an atomic array of nuclear power-related services in Europe, Asia, and North America. Its British Nuclear Group provides nuclear-waste clean-up and decommissioning services to the government. BNFL is selling its US-based Westinghouse Electric Company, which provides services to the nuclear power industry. www.hoovers.com /bnfl/--ID__57559--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (412 words)

INIS Internet Directory: British Nuclear Fuels Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) BNFL Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL), is a full service nuclear waste management, decommissioning, engineering, and nuclear materials handling company which provides integrated global solutions to its customers. The combination of its advanced technologies, management capabilities, and record of accomplishment -- based on over 25 years of continuous nuclear fuel cycle and waste management operating experience of its parent company -- allow it to provide services to both commercial and federal customers. nuclear waste management, decommissioning, engineering, and nuclear materials handling www.iaea.org /programmes/inis/ws/d1/r860.html   (131 words)

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